ALEXANDRA J. FREIDUS Barnard College Urban Studies Program Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning, Room 715 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027 afreidus@barnard.edu EMPLOYMENT 2018 - Barnard College, Term Assistant Professor, Urban Studies 2012-2016 Research Assistant, NYU Steinhardt Metropolitan Center 2013 Research Assistant, NYU Department of Social and Cultural Analysis EDUCATION 2018 New York University, Ph.D., Teaching and Learning: Urban Education Dissertation: Race, Class, and Belonging: Diversifying Schools in Gentrifying New York Committee: Pedro Noguera (chair), Lisa Stulberg, James Fraser 2007 Mills College, M.A., Education 1998 Brown University, B.A., History (Magna Cum Laude and High Honors) PUBLICATIONS Refereed Journals 2017 Alexandra Freidus and Pedro Noguera. Making Difference Matter: Teaching and Learning in Desegregated Classrooms. The Teacher Educator 52 (2): 99-113. doi: 10.1080/08878730.2017.1294925. 2016 Alexandra Freidus. A Great School Benefits Us All : Advantaged Parents and the Gentrification of an Urban Public School. Urban Education. doi: 10.1177/0042085916636656 2015 Alexandra Freidus and Pedro Noguera. From Good Will to Anachronism : School Desegregation in an Era of Shifting Demographics, Racial Discourse, and Conceptions of the Public Good. Humanity and Society 39 (3): 1-25. doi: 10.1177/0160597615601716
ALEXANDRA FREIDUS 2 Public Scholarship 2018 Alexandra Freidus. The Election, One Year Later: Life Goes On at an East Coast Middle School. Teaching Tolerance Magazine. January 31, 2018. https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/the- election-one-year-later-life-goeson-at-an-east-coast-middle-school 2017 Alexandra Freidus. Who are the Diversity in Admissions Pilot Schools? Spotlight on NYC Schools. New York: Research Alliance for New York City Schools, New York University. http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/site/research_alliance/2017/09/12/who-are-thediversity-in-admissions-pilot-schools/ 2017 Alexandra Freidus and Pedro Noguera. False Evidence Against Principal. Education Week. August 22. http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2017/08/23/false-evidence-againstprincipal.html Work in Progress Alexandra Freidus. (Under review). I Didn t Have a Lesson : Politics and Pedagogy in a Diversifying Middle School. Alexandra Freidus. (Under review). Modes of Belonging: Debating School Demographics in Gentrifying New York. SELECTED AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS 2017-2018 National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship 2017 Fahs-Beck Fund for Social Research Dissertation Scholar 2016 Mitchell Leaska Dissertation Research Award, NYU Steinhardt 2015 Doctoral Fellowship Proposal Challenge Grant, NYU Steinhardt 2014-2018 Doctoral Travel Grants, NYU Department of Teaching and Learning 2012-2016 Research Assistantship, Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools, NYU Steinhardt 2007-2009 Teacher Scholars Grant for Classroom-Based Inquiry, Mills College 1997 Royce Fellowship of Brown University
ALEXANDRA FREIDUS 3 CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION Panels Organized 2019 Behind the Discipline Gap: Racialized Experiences of School and Classroom Discipline. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Toronto. (under review) 2018 Behind the Statistics: Racialized Experiences of Identity and Belonging in Classroom Discipline (organized with Eliot Graham). Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. San Jose, CA. 2018 Struggling for Equity: A New Wave of Research on How Schools Respond to Gentrification (organized with Esa Syeed). Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. New York. 2017 Negotiating the 2016 Election in Schools: Ethnographic Understandings of a Post-Trump America (organized with Jia-Hui Stefanie Wong). Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C. Selected Conference Presentations 2018 Whiteness, Blackness, and Belonging in School and Classroom Discipline. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. San Jose, CA. 2018 I Didn t Have a Lesson: Educational Disjuncture and the 2016 Election. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. New York City, NY. 2018 That Kind of Student: Teaching, Learning, and Educational Equity in Gentrifying Schools. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. New York City, NY. 2017 I Didn t Have a Lesson: Teaching, Learning, and the 2016 Presidential Election. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, DC. 2017 Race, Class, and Belonging: Debating School Desegregation in Gentrifying New York. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. San Antonio, TX. 2017 Classroom Interactions in Desegregating Classrooms. 38 th Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum. Philadelphia, PA. 2016 Untangling School Segregation Discourse: The Intersection(s) of Race and Class. 37 th Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum. Philadelphia, PA.
ALEXANDRA FREIDUS 4 2015 Differentiating Students: Needs, Deficits, and Difference in Instructional Discourse. 36 th Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum. Philadelphia, PA. 2014 The Desegregation of Mark Twain Intermediate School: Good Will, Democratic Equality, and the Educational Marketplace. Education and Civil Rights: Historical Legacies, Contemporary Strategies, and Promise for the Future. State College, PA. 2014 Families Like Us: Gentrifying Parents Values, Motivations, and Actions in a Neighborhood School. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Philadelphia, PA. 2007 Visions of Learning: Using Classroom Inquiry to Understand Your Students. Annual Conference of Teachers for Social Justice. San Francisco, CA. Invited Talks 2018 Race, Class, and Belonging: Desegregating Schools in Gentrifying New York. National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Spring Retreat. Washington, D.C. 2005 The Journey Forward: Moving the Lessons of Teacher Education into the Early Years of Teaching. Panel discussion at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Community Forum. Palo Alto, CA. 2003 Just Like Me: Self-Portraits in the Multicultural Classroom (with Maya Christina Gonzalez). Reading the World V: The Annual Conference of the University of San Francisco. San Francisco, CA. 2001 Now I Want You to Write Me a Poem/Ahora quiero que tú me escribas un poema: LitLinks Internet-Based Writing Workshops (with Francisco X. Alarcón). The 26 th Conference of the California Association of Bilingual Educators. Los Angeles, CA. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Undergraduate and Graduate Teaching Barnard College Introduction to Urban Ethnographies (Fall 2018) Senior Seminar: New York City Field Research (Fall 2018, Spring 2019) Junior Seminar: Urban Issues (Fall 2018) Race, Space, and City Schools (Spring 2019) New York University Searching for Equity: Research on Urban and Minority Education (Spring 2018) Secondary Social Studies Field Supervisor (Fall 2017)
ALEXANDRA FREIDUS 5 Race and Schools (Instructor for qualitative methods laboratory, Fall 2013) Long Island University The Lives of Adolescents (Summer 2015) Bank Street College of Education Leadership in Curriculum and Instruction (Summer 2015) Foundations of Educational Leadership (Summer 2014) K-12 Teaching Lick-Wilmerding High School, San Francisco, CA (2008-09) US History Modern World History Berkeley High School, Berkeley, CA (2004-2008) US History Modern World History Identity and Ethnic Studies World Literature Introduction to Community Service Professions RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2014-2017 School Coach, College Access: Research and Action, New York, NY 2009-2012 Director of Teacher Leadership Development, Achievement First, Brooklyn, NY 2000-2003 Director of Community Programs, Children s Book Press, San Francisco, CA 1998-2000 AmeriCorps Partner, Partners in School Innovation, San Francisco, CA SERVICE Manuscript and Conference Submission Review American Educational Research Journal (2017, 2018) AERA Annual Meeting, Division G: Social Contexts of Education (2017, 2018) Community Service Guest Speaker, NYC Parent Action Conference (2018) NYC Community District Socioeconomic Integration Working Group (2015 - ) PTALink School Funding Equity working group (2016 - )
ALEXANDRA FREIDUS 6 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND CERTIFICATIONS American Educational Research Association Division G: Social Context of Education Special Interest Group: Critical Educators for Social Justice American Anthropological Association: Council on Anthropology and Education California Clear Teaching Credential: Secondary Social Studies, English Language Arts, and Cross-Cultural Language Acquisition and Development